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&quot;Yes it is,&quot; Jerry said. &quot;Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice.

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<ul><li>You choose how you react to situations. </li></ul><ul><li>You choose how people will affect your mood. </li></ul><ul><li>You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. </li></ul><ul><li>It's your choice how you live your life.&quot; </li></ul>

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Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open

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<ul><li>And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>While Jerry trying to open the safe box, </li></ul>his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him.

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<ul><li>Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.… </li></ul>

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<ul><li>I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. </li></ul>When I asked him how he was, he replied, &quot;If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?&quot;

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<ul><li>I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. </li></ul>

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&quot;The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,&quot; Jerry replied.

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&quot;Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live .&quot;

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<ul><li>Jerry continued, &quot;The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. </li></ul>In their eyes, I read ‘ He's a dead man’.

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<ul><li>I knew I needed to take action.&quot; </li></ul><ul><li>&quot;What did you do?&quot; I asked. </li></ul>&quot;Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me,&quot; said Jerry. &quot;She asked if I was allergic to anything.&quot;

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<ul><li>Over their laughter, I told them: “I am choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead .” </li></ul>

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<ul><li>&quot;Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you – </li></ul><ul><li>is your attitude, </li></ul>so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

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<ul><li>Now you have two choices to make: </li></ul>1. You can delete this message or 2. You can forward it to someone you care about. I hope you will choose #2. I did.